Bel Canto post 2

5 comments
- this chapter starts out with the police outside demanding the release of the hostages
-the captors begin allowing the hostages to use the bathroom
-the hostages begin to talk more
- there is a request for ransom
- the captors want the president

4 questions
-do the people in the crowd understand italian?
-can mr. hokosawa speak english?
-who are men?
~will they harm the people?

3 vocabulary words
~Liaison: A person who intiates and maintains a contact or connection.
~Acoustics: The qualities characteristics of a room, stadium etc that determine the audibility fidelity of sounds in it.
~assemblage:a group of persons or things gathered or collected; an assembly; collection; aggregate.

2 literary terms
~It was a soft, whistling snore like a wind coming in to beneath a doorjamb--simile
~pilled through the living-room window like a cold milk and made everyone squint---simile

! overview sentence
the terrorist make the guests lay on the floor and the place is in complete silence while mr. hokosawa feels responsible because of the fact that it was his own party that he invited everyone to.